The Vocal People

Another group that caught my attention. Check them out, all vocal. Very cool.

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Happy 4th of July

Everyone have a safe holiday. Enjoy time with family and friends.

allen

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July 1st 2009 Record Breaking Weather

The weather is just weird right now. I mean here its the first day in July and it never got over 69 degrees. The nights have been getting down in the 60's. The clouds were moving slow from the north and it looked like snow clouds. I cannot remember the last time that happened. So I looked it up. (don't you just love the internet?)

Hottest July 1st's on record.
1970 - 96/75
1991 - 96/72

Lowest July 1st on record.
2009 - 69/61

I could only find data back to 1948. So in the past 61 years the temperature has never gotten below 70 degrees, until today that is. The week prior to July 1st. It was up in the 90's. Then it dropped quickly, I froze, I was wearing a sweat shirt for the past 2 days.

I am a weather nut, I am the type that will stand out in a electric storm just to watch it, watch which way the storm is coming from and where its going. There are some really cool lightening bolts that come down.

Tornado's however are not my thing.

I was in one back when I was about 10 years old. It was on a church night, and all was in the fellowship room, on the second story of the church, I really dont think anyone knew it was a tornado, we just knew it was storming bad that night. My father told me that we needed to go check on the dogs and put them in the house. (the house was right next to the church as you can see in the picture below, the church is on the left and the house is behind the trees on the right.)

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He had to force the door open and then we took off, I remember the rain hitting my young face and it was stinging, I tried to shield my face with an umbrella, and that was just pointless, cause it was ripped out of my small hands. I remember walking with the wind cause it was pushing us towards the house. Once inside, we let the dogs in and they ran to the basement.

I went into the living room and the enclosed porch that was attached to the house, was no longer attached. It had been pulled away from the house by only inches. Far enough to allow a lot of rain into the house. I remember running over, to the furniture and started moving, as I am yelling to my father to come quick. We got the room cleaned out pretty quick. But what a mess the carpet was. We had to find buckets, the problem was they were all out in the garage. So I had to get pots and pans instead, and take a pot at a time to dump it out. We found out later that a tornado touched down only one block east of us. If my father and I would have left any sooner, who knows what would have happened.

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Humane Society - not here

In the past 5 years that I have lived here we have had 2 different animals left on our door step.

For the past 3 weeks we have had 3 different animals left on our door step (one each week). The last one just pissed me off to no end. Someone tied a dog to my light pole that is in my side yard and left it with out food or water. I assume it happened after 10pm because that is when my company left.

One of my great neighbors, north of me, left a note on the door, saying:

We saw a dog tied up to the light pole in your yard. It's been tied up since about 11pm last night. We took it to our house to give it food and water. If it's your dog, It's in our back yard.

I went in and typed out this sign and stapled it to a piece of wood and nailed it on the pole that faces the street, so all could read it.



As I am nailing this sign to the pole, the neighbor directly across the street, met me and started the 50 questions:

1. You know the neighbor has "your" dog?
2. Why would "you" leave a dog tied up with out food and water.
3. When did you get a dog?
4. Are "you" sure its not "your" dog?

After the 50 questions where done she was walking to the neighbor that had the dog. I guess to let them know that it wasn't mine.

I am extremely happy that a neighbor felt sorry for the dog, and took it home and fed it.

All of this makes me mad and sad, to think that my neighbors think that I am a bad person for leaving a dog tied up with out food and water. I have owned dogs, cats, birds, horses, and loved all of them like they were my children. I have never or will ever do that to any animal.

I hope we don't get anymore next week.

Allen

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My Goals (past to present)

I have all ways had Goals in my life. From the time of about 2 years old and up I have had them.

Allen's Goals

1. Learn to walk.
2. Learn to walk in cast.
3. Learn to run in cast.
4. To get the cast off with out being cut. They used a arm saw back then, to cut them off. (yes it scared the living crap out of me ever single time. )
5. Learn to walk again on my weak feet.
6. Learn to run again.

This process happened at least once a year. Until I was 18. I was born handicapped.

Allen's Goals (con't)

7. Graduate High School
8. Be a police officer.
9. Get married.
10. Work For Walt Disney World.
11. Get a divorce.
12. Come out of the closet once an for all.
13. Find a husband and have kids.
14. Make one million dollars.
15. Move out of Indiana.
16. Move some where it does not snow.
17. ??

So now I am walking down my path of life minding my own business, when all of a sudden a stop sign appears. I am looking at which way I should go, but for the life of me I don't know. I look one way and I see lots of sun sine. I look another way and see college. I look straight ahead and I see two kids turn their lives around and become something in life.

The thing is I want all three of them. But how do I do them all?

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The Y and I Factor

The Y Factor is really something that just hit me. A friend I was talking about dating. Finding the right guy.

I am attracted to skinny, short, dark haired guys, that are between the ages of 20 and 35.

Age really did not matter for a few years, until I found a pattern, it seems as though guys that are over 35 are so stuck in their ways its not even funny. They don't even want to try new and interesting things. Work, Eat, and Sleep is not what I call a fun time. If you have a relationship with them, they want you to move in with them, in their home. But when you try to tell them that "we" should move into our own home, they come unglued at the seems. In a true relationship its our stuff, not his stuff and my stuff. Our home, our dog or cat, our bills, our cars.

I went on this date, the guy was not in my age range, nor was he skinny, but I thought hey I will give it a try. He takes me to a gay restaurant which was fine, with in 10 minuets of us sitting down his eyes was surfing the room. He was looking at a guy, with the "I want him bad" look. I was talking at the time, but I really don't think he was actually listening to me. So I figured I would do what I normally do in that situation and I dropped the spoon on the table, so that I could get his attention. He looks at the table first and then at me, I simply said this date is over. I wasn't mean about it, I was being honest with him. I cannot date anyone that looks at others in the "I want him bad" look. It makes me feel inadequate.

Here is where the Y factor comes in.

Y - ask me out, if you are going to look at others?
Y - did I think it would work out?
Y - am I here?
Y - are some jerks?
Y - do I have to explain what you did wrong?
Y - did you lie to me?
Y - did you make me feel bad?
Y - don't you leave me alone?


The I factor is so much nicer. Its simple really.


I - really like this guy.
I - think he has beautiful eyes.
I - am enjoying this.
I - can not wait until the next date.
I - am happy.
I - want to be around him all the time.
I - want us to grow old together.
I - am excited when he calls.
I - want to learn everything about him.
I - don't want this to end.

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Amazing choir (Perpetuum Jazzile) uses there hands to stimulate storm.

A friend on Facebook told me about this, and I just had to share it with you. Check this out. Its awesome.

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Trying something new

A friend suggested that I post everything on Craigslist.org that I want to sell. The service is free, its free to post, I thought why not, its free.

I set up a new email address, so that I can keep all the emails separated, I tend to get a lot of emails. I actually have several email accounts. Some of them have over 300 emails in them. I try to clean it out every month. Mostly spam messages.

After posting to Craigslist.org, I almost immediately starting getting emails. Its spam mail. I thought wow that was quick. I have though had a few interested potintial buyers. No one has actually shown up to buy.

I will keep ya posted on this. I hope that I can sell everything before I have to move. If craigslist doesnt help then I am going to have a nice yard sell.

I am working pt agian for a friend that has apartment buildings. I do maintenence for him, and I actually enjoy working for him.

Have a good week all

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